Countries
European Union, Poland
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Poland
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Hawaii
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3228
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2320
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
cześć
您好
Thank You
dziękuję
谢谢
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
你好吗？
Good Night
dobranoc
晚安
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
晚上好
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
下午好
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
早上好
Please
proszę
请
Sorry
Przepraszam
遗憾
Bye
do widzenia
再见
I Love You
kocham Cię
我爱你
Excuse Me
przepraszam
原谅我
Dialect 1
Kashubian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Poland
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
108,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Masovian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Poland
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
45,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Silesian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
510,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
343
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.61 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
40.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Polski
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
polonais
cantonais
German Name
Polnisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Poles
Han Chinese
Origin
1270
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Polish
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
241
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
pl
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pol
yue
ISO 639 2/B
pol
yue
ISO 639 3
pol
No data available
ISO 639 6
pols
yue
Glottocode
poli1260
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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